'Her success shows their failures': Britain's 'strictest headteacher' targe

Author Douglas Murray discusses Katherine Birbalsingh’s triumph after the school she founded in London, Michaela Community School, was targeted by leftists and others. “They were recently taken to court by a Muslim pupil and her parents because this school believes in there being no place for religion in the school, couldn’t be mass prayers by Muslim students in the playground,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “They attested this, they went against the school and eventually the family amazingly found money …. to take the school to court, it went all the way to the High Court. “There’s a very important point here – why should it be that a school that demonstrates excellence … why should it be that it’s that school that’s attacked not just by some Islamists and so on, but by leftists the teaching unions, the Labour Party and others? “They do it … because of the success of Katherine Birbalsingh’s show the failure of her critics.”